Black Dogs Summary

Black Dogs is a fictional memoir of two people who are very much in love, yet complete opposites of one another. June and Bernard Tremaine's story is told by their son-in-law, Jeremy, forty-three years after the pivotal events of their honeymoon, which caused this young couple to live apart from each other for the remainder of their days.

Young, idealistic, and naïve British communists, June and Bernard join the Party the...

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Ian McEwan Biographies (2)

Ian McEwan is very much a product of the new British universities, those popularly known as "plate-glass universities" to distinguish them from the older "red-brick universities" at which writers such...
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Ian McEwan first came to public notice in 1975; he was immediately recognized as an important and new voice on the fictional scene. Along with Martin Amis and Julian Barnes, his contemporaries, he is ...
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Ian McEwan (1948-)
(Full name Ian Russell McEwan) English novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and children's writer.
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One of the most celebrated British writer...
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Ian McEwan (1948-)
(Full name Ian Russell McEwan) English novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and children's writer.
Introduction
One of the most celebrated British writer...
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Ian McEwan (1948-)
(Full name Ian Russell McEwan) English novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and children's writer.
Introduction
One of the most celebrated British writer...
Read more

Ian McEwan (1948-)
(Full name Ian Russell McEwan) English novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and children's writer.
Introduction
One of the most celebrated British writer...
Read more

Ian McEwan (1948-)
(Full name Ian Russell McEwan) English novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and children's writer.
Introduction
One of the most celebrated British writer...
Read more